Walker Cooper

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornJanuary 8, 1915 · Atherton, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1940

Final gameSeptember 20, 1957

Seasons18 (1940–1957)

St. Louis Cardinals 1940–1945; New York Giants 1946–1948; Cincinnati Reds 1949; New York Giants 1949; Boston Braves 1950; Cincinnati Reds 1950; Boston Braves 1951–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953; Chicago Cubs 1954; Pittsburgh Pirates 1954; Chicago Cubs 1955; St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1957

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

124

488

6.7

454

18.7

2.7

117

38.7

73.3

RBI

73.3

49.3

.258

OBP

.308

9.3

SLG

.436

62.7

OPS

.744

30.7

wRC+

92.5

OPS+

96.5

wOBA

.334

18.7

sWAR

2.1

38.7

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.2

70.1

OPS+

116.9

74.4

sWAR

36.2

97.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	6	21	19	3	6	1	0	0	2	2	2	1	0	.316	.381	.368	.749	107.4	103.8	.353	0.1
1941	68	215	200	19	49	9	1	1	20	13	14	1	0	.245	.291	.315	.606	63.0	67.4	.287	0.3
1942	125	474	438	58	123	32	7	7	65	29	29	4	0	.281	.327	.434	.761	115.4	117.8	.355	3.5
1943	122	476	449	52	143	30	4	9	81	19	19	1	0	.318	.349	.463	.812	131.7	133.3	.378	4.4
1944	112	426	397	56	126	25	5	13	72	20	19	4	0	.317	.352	.504	.855	138.5	141.0	.389	4.2
1945	4	18	18	3	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.389	.389	.389	.778	115.9	117.3	.366	0.1
1946	87	300	280	29	75	10	1	8	46	17	12	0	0	.268	.310	.396	.706	93.1	98.2	.330	1.4
1947	140	546	515	79	157	24	8	35	122	24	43	2	0	.305	.339	.586	.926	135.5	139.7	.406	5.3
1948	91	322	290	40	77	12	0	16	54	28	29	1	0	.266	.332	.472	.805	111.9	114.5	.363	2.2
1949	124	488	454	48	117	13	4	20	83	28	32	0	0	.258	.308	.436	.744	92.5	96.5	.334	2.1
1950	117	420	384	55	120	22	3	14	64	30	31	1	0	.313	.367	.495	.862	128.8	131.2	.382	3.7
1951	109	372	342	42	107	14	1	18	59	28	18	1	1	.313	.367	.518	.884	141.0	142.8	.393	3.9
1952	102	375	349	33	82	12	1	10	55	22	32	1	0	.235	.282	.361	.643	76.6	81.4	.294	1.0
1953	53	151	137	12	30	6	0	3	16	12	15	1	0	.219	.287	.328	.615	64.2	65.6	.281	0.1
1954	71	198	173	21	52	12	2	7	33	23	24	0	0	.301	.389	.514	.903	135.9	131.7	.401	2.0
1955	54	119	111	11	31	8	1	7	15	6	19	0	0	.279	.322	.559	.881	126.1	127.0	.378	1.0
1956	40	72	68	5	18	5	1	2	14	3	8	0	0	.265	.296	.456	.752	94.8	98.3	.324	0.3
1957	48	85	78	7	21	5	1	3	10	5	10	0	0	.269	.310	.474	.784	102.0	105.7	.337	0.4

Career totals

1,473

5,078

4,702

573

1,341

240

173

488th-most career HR

RBI

812

309

357

.2852

OBP

.3321

SLG

.4636

354th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7957

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1949-07-06	CHC @ CIN Gameday	7	5	6	0	0	3	10	15
1951-05-18	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	1	3	10
1944-08-19	SF @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	2	9
1947-06-22	SF @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1950-06-09	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-20	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-21	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-22	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

8× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.